Boston, Massachusetts police are investigating an arson attack on a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Saint Peter's Parish, the second attack on a statue of the Virgin Mary in two days. The Diocese of Brooklyn, New York announced that New York City police were investigating the vandalization of a statue of the Virgin Mary at Cathedral Prep School and Seminary in Queens. #ChurchArson #SacredArt #ChurchVandalism #Boston #Brooklyn

A former professor at NYU has been arrested and charged with hate crime after he allegedly uprooted plants outside Brooklyn, New York’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Williamsburg, throwing them at the door and damaging a $5,000 statue. #Brooklyn #NewYork #Catholic #ChurchVandalism

From 2013 to 2018, more than three dozen houses of worship and similar buildings in Manhattan were razed or redeveloped to make way for different uses. Analyzing the sale and repurpose of religious development in New York: #Brooklyn #Queens #Manhattan #NewYork #Church #RealEstateDevelopment

Weeds are growing on the rubble-and-trash-strewn site of Our Lady of Loreto in Brooklyn, New York, which activists wanted to landmark and turn into a community cultural center. The charitable entity Catholic Charities Progress of Peoples Development Corp. plans to construct a building with 135 units, all of them for seniors. #Brooklyn #NewYork #CatholicCharities #church #demolition